[3] This caused West to produce so-called "offprint" reporters for specific states like Texas and Missouri, of which there are now around 30.
[2] The NRS is available at law libraries throughout the United States, and is also available through online legal research databases like Westlaw and LexisNexis.
Since the NRS now comprises over 10,000 volumes,[1] and many older cases have been overruled or superseded, only the largest law libraries keep a complete hard copy set on site.
Most law libraries either do not carry older volumes or retrieve them on request from off-site compact storage.
[6] But West never did the same thing with all U.S. Supreme Court cases which predate the publication of the Supreme Court Reporter, nor with all published state cases that predate the start of the NRS regional or state-level reporters.